Rule

"A rule is generally a provision or convention to be followed&sbquo and something you have to abide by socially. A more detailed definition is&sbquo rules in social life and sports that represent instruction&sbquo that they have been confirmed as accepted instructions within the entire group even if the are specialized. If there are contents within rules that provide instructions on methods to deal with specialized actions&sbquo the content of the action is subject to judgement and evaluation along with social acceptance. In the event&sbquo however&sbquo the rules and the views of the person responsible for the action are completely different&sbquo the action naturally constitutes violation or neglect of the rules. The traffic law&sbquo for example&sbquo clearly instructs behavior on public roads&sbquo and violation of the traffic law means neglect of its rules. It was Wittgenstein who probed into the relation of the rule and sociality in depth. In short&sbquo his observation was that a rule is the restriction of conditions for justifying the views of the person who conducts an action&sbquo and the restriction of conditions for the social consensus to accept or approve it. In other words&sbquo a rule can be defined as having an instructional content that subjects an action to both subjectivity and objectivity. In the field of art&sbquo artist violating society's rules has become a subject of art expression&sbquo and a considerable number of such cases have existed historically. In design too&sbquo challenging rules based on accepted notions and common assumptions can become forms of expression and design itself as well. However&sbquo if we take the Wittgensteinian interpretation &sbquo the creation of new rules that apply even to actions of challenging and destroying rules should be demand&sbquo and it is necessary to understand the dual structure that actions against rules create new rules."

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